Extract tables from photos, scans and pictures of documents into editable Excel spreadsheets. OCR reads the image and rebuilds your data — free online, no signup.
You have a photo of a document — a bank statement, a receipt, a printed report — and you need the numbers in Excel. Retyping is slow and error-prone. Our image to Excel converter uses OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to read the text in your image, detect the rows and columns, and rebuild everything as an editable spreadsheet.
The workflow is simple: capture the document, save it as a PDF, upload, download Excel. The OCR engine handles the rest automatically.
Use a scanning app (Adobe Scan, Microsoft Lens, iPhone Notes) to capture the document and save as PDF
Drop the PDF into our converter — OCR runs automatically
Get a clean XLSX with the table structure preserved — CSV and JSON too
Phone scanning apps do three things that dramatically improve OCR accuracy: they de-skew the page (flatten perspective distortion), enhance contrast (make text crisp against the background), and crop to the document edges. A raw camera photo taken at an angle in dim light might OCR at 70% accuracy; the same document through a scanning app typically reaches 95%+.
If your image is a bank statement, our converter does more than OCR. Every extracted transaction is checked against the running balance — if the OCR misread a digit anywhere, the balance math breaks on that row and it's flagged automatically. You get a spreadsheet that's been arithmetically verified, not just optically recognized.
This matters most for photographed documents, where OCR error rates are naturally higher than flatbed scans. The balance check acts as a safety net that catches what the OCR missed.
| Image Source | Support | Best Practice |
|---|---|---|
| Phone photo of a bank statement | ✅ Optimized | Use a scanning app, save as PDF |
| Scanned document image | ✅ Supported | 300 DPI, grayscale or B&W |
| Screenshot of a table | ✅ Supported | Capture at full resolution, save as PDF |
| Photo of a receipt or invoice | ✅ Supported | Flatten the paper, good lighting |
| Handwritten notes | ⚠️ Limited | Printed text only — handwriting unreliable |